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PLOW.

Patented May 11, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIcE.

GEORGE M. RAMSEY, or GLOKEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,504, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed December 2'3, 1885. Serial No. 186,506. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. RAMSEY, of Clokey, lVz1shington county, Pennsylvania, have invented new and Improved Plow, which consists in the peculiarity of construction, whereby it may be easily and practically con-- verted into a right or left hand plow, together with other parts requisite to a perfect plow, all of which are clearly and fully set forth in the following description, including the drawings and letters of reference.

Like letters refer to like parts.

Figure 1 represents a side view showing the left-hand mold -board folded up, while the right-hand mold-board,with share attached, is down in position for plowing.

a is the round tubular beam, made of ordinary gas or water pipe, in which is inserted a solid cylinder of wood to add strength and stiffness, whereby a less and lighter beam may be used than otherwise would be required.

b is the colter, made with an eye sufficiently large to slide upon the beam, and can be adjusted to the desired position on the beam and made fast with a set-screw.

c is the center piece, and serves as laudside for both mold-boards, and is constructed with two eyes or sockets, c, in line, so as to slide on the beam, same as the colter, and made fast to the beam by set-screws 0, having a recess in its base,with beveled tongue at its front and a heel or tenon, t, at its rear.-

(1 d are two mold-boards-one right and the other left with shares attached to each.

6 e are strap-hinges, made with an eye in the center of each large enough to insert therein the beam and work loosely thereon, while the straps are bolted fast to the rear or inner side of each moldboard, whereby the mold-boards are rigidly connected, while the hinges turn loose on the beam, thus enabling either to be folded up above the beam while the other is being folded down for plowing. The weight of each balancing the other facilitates the operation of reversing. The moldboards reverse in a line at right angles to the line of travel, the beam being the center of motion.

f is the shoe underneath the landside, and is made wide at the hind end, (see Fig. 2, hind end view, and Fig. 3, plan view,) while it is tapered forward to the thickness of the land' side. It is also grooved on the upper side, so as to. fit snugly over the under edge of the landside, to prevent displacement sidewise of the hind end, while the frontcnd is notched to fit a V, Fig. 3, formed on the landside, whereby the front end is prevented from displacement sidewise. The front end is also cut at an angle, (see Fig. 1,) to fit a corresponding angle formed on the landside in a line to hold the front end of the shoe against the under edge of the'landside,while a heel or tenon, heretofore described, fits in a recess made in A the shoe, (shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, marked 9,) whereby the shoe is prevented from slipping backward. Thus constructed, the shoe is held in place by a single bolt, (marked h.)

i, Fig. 4, is the middle link by which the clevis on the beam is connected with the clevis on the double-tree. One end of this link or ring is flattened, and the other part is round, whereby it may be adjusted to either notch in the clevis on the beam, while the flat part prevents the ring from escaping therefrom. Thus the draft of the plow is speedily regulated without withdrawing a bolt.

I contemplate bending a portion of the beam at the rear end (see Fig. 5) downward a few inches, and thus reduce the height of the moldboards when folded up.

The handles may be fastened to the beam and landside, and require no description.

I desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In combination with a tubular beam, the center piece or landside, c, the sockets c and set-screws c, and the rotating mold-boards d, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination with the beam a and landside 0, having a recess in its base, with a beveled tongue at its front and a tenon at its rear, the shoe], with a fork at its front and a recess at its rear, and a bolt, 71, substantially as shown and described.

3. The tubular beam (1, having a wood-filling, in combination with landside c, adjnsta ble upon said beam, the shoe f and moldboards (I, rotating upon the beam by means of straps c, substantiall y as shown and described. GEO. M. RAMSEY.

Witnesses:

CLARK RIGGLE, THEo. Hos'r. 

